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Review: One Night of Trouble by Elle Kennedy

January 9, 2015 by Mandi 6 Comments

onenightOne Night of Trouble by Elle Kennedy (After Hours #3)
Contemporary Romance
Released: January 5, 2015
Entangled

Reviewed by Mandi

This is the third book in a trilogy focused around three guys that own a nightclub. Overall, I’ve enjoyed this series. It started with the intense Gage, then to the stand-offish Reed, and now on to the good guy, AJ. AJ is the nice guy, the good guy, the guy that would never have a one night stand or take advantage of a woman. That is until he meets Brett (yes Brett is the heroine’s name). Brett comes to AJ’s night club with her girlfriends and ends up getting stalked (not creepy stalked)  by AJ. He takes one look at her, and needs to know who she is and what her story is. After much prodding and much eye rolling on her part, he makes a move in an alley behind the club (pretty sure this alley has gotten much action in the previous books – I’m not complaining) and he takes her home for a night of hot sexin’. The next morning, when Brett’s brother finds AJ in bed with her, she blurts out he is her boyfriend. Brett is trying to turn her life around and be more responsible so her father will let her run the tattoo shop her family is opening soon. She knows a one night stand would not impress her father. AJ plays along, and decides a pretend boyfriend with sex benefits is A-okay with him. The sex turns into feelings and a romance develops.

This one was okay – I liked AJ and Brett. They have nice chemistry together and Elle Kennedy always writes well done, dirty yet emotional sex scenes. I didn’t love the family drama that surrounds both of them. As I mentioned, Brett is looking to make herself a better person with a better image to get more responsibility from her parents. AJ has parent issues too. His brother died years ago and AJ feels lingering guilt over it and tis puts distance between him and his parents. I never really connected with this drama. I felt like it was just introduced but not fully developed or something. It didn’t really do anything for me.

But I’m glad we get AJ and Brett’s story. This has been a fun series and I always look forward to more Elle Kennedy books.

Rating: B-

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  1. cayenne says

    January 9, 2015 at 1:16 pm

    I liked this trilogy (I like the majority of Elle Kennedy’s books, so not really surprising), but I’ve felt with every book that the length was a problem. The stories and characters were interesting enough in short form, but seemed slightly underdeveloped; so much could have been done with more space that I’ve felt almost shortchanged with each book. Which is really unfair to a well-written series working within established publisher’s parameters, but there you go.

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    • Mandi says

      January 10, 2015 at 7:48 am

      Yep – I needed more time with the h/h family background stuff to really feel it.

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  2. Karen says

    January 9, 2015 at 6:13 pm

    ^^ That’s exactly how I feel! Perhaps I’m just over the category-length of the Entangled line.

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  3. Deb says

    January 11, 2015 at 9:25 pm

    I have to agree with Karen. These Entangled books are coming up short for me. I love Elle Kennedy and Tessa Bailey (another Entangled author) but I’m feeling these stories are all bleeding together for me. Even the covers look too similar.

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    • Mandi says

      January 12, 2015 at 7:44 am

      Yep. At first I used to love these covers but now they are ALL the same. They need something new. And they need to let the authors write a little longer.

      I do like the price though…..

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  4. Marcy Meyer says

    January 26, 2015 at 8:39 am

    I love Elle Kennedy! This series is very hot! Love it!

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